Kate Douglas Wiggin, née Smith (1856-1923) était un auteur et éducateur américain pour enfants. Elle est née à Philadelphie et était d'origine galloise. Elle a commencé le premier jardin d'enfants à San Francisco en 1878 (le « Silver Street Free Kindergarten »). Avec sa sœur dans les années 1880, elle a également créé une école de formation pour les enseignants de maternelle. Ses livres les plus connus sont The Story of Pasty (1883), The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887), Polly Oliver's Problem (1893), A Cathedral Courtship (1893), The Village Watchtoer (1896), Marm Lisa (1897) et Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903). ).
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INTRODUCTION "Among all the different ways of giving counsel I think the finest and that which pleases the most universally is fable, in whatever shape it appears." JOSEPH ADDISON
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